A-Z of Entries

Ridgway 3.7.1800 at Colles' / 10.7.1800 at Macnally's (with Colles) / 5.8 at (or before) Wallace's trial in Carlow / all these in Ireland

The GD website has coded these to James Ridgway. More likely William Ridgeway DNB 1765-1817 son of William Ridgeway merchant and Dorothy (nee Tandy, relative of John Napper Tandy) called to Irish bar 1790, United Irishmen 1792. A Joseph Ridgeway attorney subscribed to Reports of Cases.. (Dublin 1798) and a daughter of a John Ridgeway married Dr Thomas Grattan at Edenderry, Kings Co. in April 1777

13.11.1794 Robinson, Irish barrister at Foulkes' / Robinson I.B. (alongside week ending) 22.11.94 at Tooke's trial / 17.2.1795 at Foulkes' with Parker adv Robinson IB / 8.3.1795 at Foulkes', Robinson, Parker / 6.6.1796 at hustings Robinson / 25.4.1797 meet Robinson barr

George Robinson admitted Middle Temple 15.1.1782 eldest son of Arthur Robinson MD, late of Wood Park, Tynan, Armagh, Ireland (studied Leyden 1733 age 27, MD Rheims 1754). George Robinson barrister of Armagh subscribed 1793 to Poems of Rev John Anketell. May be the George son of Arthur Robinson baptised 2.11.1760…

J & Ht Rowan dine 8.10.1804 / 11.3.1805 mrs Rowan & Jane call / 28.3.1805 A & F Rowan dine / 15.4.1805 young Rowans adv at dinner / 10.11.1805 F Rowan dines / 20.12.1805 Archd Rowan & 4 to theatre / 28.3.1806 G(race) M(ary) C(ooper) & F Rowan dine / 27.4.1806 GMC & Boadens dine; adv. F Rowan / 29.5.1807 F Rowan dines at Godwin's with H Rowan & others

The children of Archibald Hamilton Rowan DNB 1751-1834 were daughters, Jane born about 1785, Elizabeth who married Hamilton Sydney Beresford in Dublin in 1810, Mildred who married Sir Edward Ryan in 1808,…

dr Rowley 4.10.1799 adv at James Marshall's / 8.7.1800 (in Ireland) Rowley at Caldwell's / 12.9.1818 sleep at Rowley's (Southend)

Dr Rowley may have been William Rowley DNB 1742-1806. Rowley in Ireland perhaps Clotworthy Rowley of Granby Row or Hon Clotworthy Rowley of Mountjoy Sq both Dublin 1795

Scully 11.7.1800 at Moira's

Probably Denis Scully DNB 1773-1830 Catholic lawyer. Dublin Trades 1797 Michael Scully lottery office keeper / Timothy Scully turner. Subscrs to D R O'Conor 1798 William Scully, Dually, Cashel, Tipperary / William Scully, Ohillips Town, Kings Co.

Seckerson 7.7.1800 at Gould's

Seckerson was a reasonably common name in England but in Ireland it seems to have been spelt Segerson

Sheehy 14.7.1800 at Grattan's

Carew Smith 1.7.1800 on wherry to Dublin

Morning Post 19.10.1793 died at Castle-connel co Limerick, Carew Smith formerly a Capt in 16th foot / Morning Post 12.8.1809 on 9.8.1809 at Ealing Carew Smith son of Rev Dr Smith of Molesworth St Dublin = Caroline youngest dau of William Knox Esq of Great Ealing / Morning Post 5.2.1819 Carew Smith agent (& cousin) of T W Grady who petitioned against Wyndham Quin

St George 27.12.1801 at John King's / 17.1.1802 St Georges at King's / 4.4.1802 mrs St George at King's

Possibly  Melesina Trench DNB 1768-1827 (nee Chenevix, widow of St George). Her Remains, edited by her son and published 1862, have extracts from her journal which show she was still in Ireland on 17.11.1801 and arrived in Calais on 5.7.1802, so it is possible she was at King's on the above dates, the plural entry perhaps referring to her teenage son who was travelling with her. In the Remains he wrote of this period that he found "few memoranda and fewer still which need to be…

Stacpoole 29.4.1800 at theatre

George Stacpoole born 26.8.1736 died 25.3.1824 see Burke's Irish Families, De Stacpoole. Heir to large estates in County Clare, Ireland. He was a man of fashion in London noted for the painting of his coach and was active in the Society for General Inoculation and the Society of Ancient Britons. He was later made duc de Stacpoole by Louis XVIII of France. Some of his relatives were also prominent in London, his second cousin Joseph Stacpoole, admitted Middle Temple 1767 became a money scrivener and went bankrupt in 1782, then acted as secretary to the…

Asks of R C; talks of Strafford & Leland 30.7.1800 at Grattan's

From the entry of the night before, these subjectless verbs probably referred to Grattan. R C is uncoded (neither identified nor unidentified) on GD website. At a reasonable guess it may have referred to John Philpot Curran's eldest son Richard, whom Godwin may have seen more recently than Grattan had (see Curran, Richard). Leland probably referred to Thomas Leland DNB 1722-1785 whose History of Ireland Godwin had looked at on 27.7.1800 and was to read further in the next few days, and Strafford to Thomas Wentworth…

Sweeney 11.8.1800 dines

Taygart 25.9.1800 at mrs Plunket's / 28.9.1800 call on Tegart (at Wimbledon) / 6.10.1800 Tegart at theatre (& Curran) / 18.10.1803 call on Tegart, Curran expected / 22.10.1803 Tegart adv at Curran's / 3.11.1806 at theatre / 3.5.1813 at Curran's / 12.7.1815 call on / 8.9.1815 meet / 9.10.1917 at Curran's / 11.10.1817 again / 12.10.1817 again / 15.10.1817 again / 4.11.1817 at Curran's funeral / 12.9.1818 steamboat for Southend / 8.10.1818 at theatre / 22.4.1820 again / 27.8.1820 meet / 18.5.1824 call on

Clearly a friend of Curran's, probably pronounced Taygart. Arthur Tegart…

Terry 16.7.1800 at Reeves's / 20.7.1800 at Webb's

Tobins 3.8.1800 at (Castle) Brown's

GD website has coded this entry to John Tobin DNB 1770-1834 but there's no reason to think he was in Ireland in 1800 if ever and the name was fairly common in Ireland. See work notes below

Toler 5.8.1800 (at Wallace's trial, Carlow)

John Toler DNB 1745-1831. Government lawyer, pro-union, "ferocious" against rebels

7 Vernons 1.7.1800 on wherry to Dublin

The 7 Vernons may have been John Vernon of Clontarf Castle barrister 1778 married Sep 1780 Elizabeth dau of Henry Fletcher, children George (became a barrister), John Fane, Frances (=Bertram Mitford 1806),Elizabeth (=Chas Arthur Tindall) & Maria (=Pierce Butler 1806)

Vicars, Irls 14.8.1805 at Joseph Johnson's

see work notes below, Wish I could guess what Irls stood for

Vigogne 21.7.1800 calls (in Ireland)

Star 31.5.1799 Charles Vigogne Esq lately = only dau of Clotworthy Rowley MP of Raven's Well co. Dublin / Jackson's Oxford Journal 30.11.1833 Sir Gilbert King baronet = Miss Vigogne niece of Admiral Sir Josias Rowley DNB 1765-1842 / True Briton 10.1.1800 Capt Vigogne in a regiment of Fencible Infantry ( & see Rowley)

call on EB & W Place 11.7.1800 / 25.7.1800 call, with C(urran), W Place / 26.7.1800 tea W Place / 1.8.1800 call on W Place

I suggest this was an address rather than a person's name. The only address in W Stewart's Dublin directory 1797 that fits was Warrington Place, Baggot St. One possibility is that Curran's mistress Mrs Fitzgerald lived there with their three children (see Fitzgerald). She later wrote to Godwin in terms that suggest they had met before (Bodleian Abinger c7 f32-3). It was clearly not where Mary Wollstonecraft's sisters Eliza Bishop & Everina were living,…